Critical Views
70 articles
Poetry in Pieces: The Carnal and the Divine in Michael Lee’s The Mystical Rose
In Hot Pursuit: The Spirit of Alfred Hitchcock in Roadgames
Finding the Rhythm: Ambition and Responsibility in Dingo
‘Mixed Up with Other People’s Dreams’: The Tangled Webs of Time in Summer
Hitting Home: Violence and Morality in Mr Inbetween
Flying the Coop: An Australian Coming of Age in Careful He Might Hear You
Alien in Australia: Science Fiction, Refugee Politics and The Stranger
Everyday Longing: City Life in Winter of Our Dreams and Lonely Hearts
At the Threshold of Revival: Australian Cinema and the Moment of 2000 Weeks
Outback Ethnography: Revisiting Fred Zinnemann’s The Sundowners
‘The Show Must Go On’: Transgression and the Carnivalesque in Moulin Rouge!
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Revisited: Tony Bonner and Ken James on an Iconic Australian TV Show
Love Without Limits: Disability, Illness and Romance in Standing Up for Sunny and Cerulean Blue
Spectres of the Past: Necropolitics and Colonial Trauma in Dark Place
Legacy of a Law-breaker: Andrew Dominik’s Chopper Turns Twenty
‘Let’s Go Shopping!’: Tony Barber and Philip Brady on the Golden Age of Australian Game Shows
Aural Reflections: Music, Self and Objectivity in Now Sound: Melbourne’s Listening and Her Sound, Her Story
Cinema for Claustrophiles: Virtual Reality at the Adelaide Film Festival and Beyond
Other Voices: Grace, Who Waits Alone and New Australian Underground Cinema
The Sense of Being Somewhere: Mind at War, Thalu: Dreamtime Is Now and the Rise of Virtual Reality
Keeping Country Alive: Dreaming, Decolonisation and the Karrabing Film Collective
Cut-up Country: The Polemics of Presentation in [Censored] and Terror Nullius
Welcome to Television: Philip Brady on In Melbourne Tonight and Australia’s Early Variety Shows
Landscape of Silence: Sound Design in the Films of Warwick Thornton
Freaky Farmers and Sick Flocks: The Locals and Black Sheep
The Art of Meta-morphosis: Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto
Room to Move: Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s The Silent Eye
Making Waves in a Man’s World: Jane Campion’s Women in The Piano and Top of the Lake: China Girl
Hearts Adrift: Revisiting Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide
Her Brilliant Career: Gillian Armstrong on the Australian Screen Then and Now
Sounding ‘Unstable Terrain’ in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock
Welcoming Intercourse: Luke Warm Sex and the Importance of Sexual Discourse
The Eyes of a Child: Coming of Age in Whale Rider, Boy and Shopping
Something in the Dark: The Tale of Ruby Rose and the Tasmanian Gothic
Skeletons in the Nation’s Cupboard: Warwick Thornton on Being an Aboriginal Artist
Notes from the Underground: Guerrilla Filmmaking in Australia
History, Feminism and Time: Gillian Armstrong’s Documentary Series
I’m Not There: The Future of the Musical Biopic
